Westworld's James Marsden on fulfilling a childhood fantasy in the new sci-fi

Westworld’s James Marsden on fulfilling a childhood fantasy in the new sci-fi

James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld. James Marsden is living the cowboy dream, thanks to a starring role in SoHo’s sci-fi drama Westworld. He plays Teddy Flood, a mysterious wanderer at a fantasy-fuelled, futuristic theme park populated by humanoid robots and where visitors can act out their wildest dreams. The series, described as a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin, also stars Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton and Ed Harris. Thandie Newton plays brothel-host Maeve Millay in Westworld. It centres on what happens when a computer update causes the park’s robotic ‘hosts’ to become aware of the nature of their existence. And when that ‘existence’ for some equates to 30 years of violence and abuse, the stage is set for some…